# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vanessa-estelle-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:42:05.638Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vanessa-estelle-williams"
name: "Vanessa Estelle Williams"
slug: "vanessa-estelle-williams"
description: "Vanessa Estelle Williams is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her roles as Maxine Joseph–Chadway in the Showtime drama series, Soul Food (2000–2004), for which she received NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series and as Nino Brown's feisty gun moll, Keisha in the 1991 crime drama film, New Jack City. Williams is also known for her role as Anne-Marie McCoy in the first and fourth of the Candyman films, and as Rhonda Blair in the first season of the Fox prime time soap opera Melrose Place (1992–93)."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vanessa_A._Williams.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963-05-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.347780126849894
  historical:           15.17425066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0004539"
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    url:       "http://www.vanessawilliamsonline.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump